Virginia Dressler

Virginia Dressler

Digital Projects Librarian at Kent State University

Virginia Dressler is the Digital Projects Librarian at Kent State University. Her specialty areas are project management and digitization, working primarily with the university’s unique collections. She holds a Master's of Library and Information Science from Kent State University (2007), a Master's of the Arts in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Leeds (2003) and a certificate in advanced librarianship (digital libraries) from Kent State University (2014). Her research areas include privacy in digital collections and the Right to be Forgotten. She is the chair of Ohio Preservation Council and also serves on the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board. She is the author of Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making (Morgan & Claypool, 2018) and currently working on a second book for ACRL's Publications in Librarianship series entitled The Ethical Digital Repository: A Compassionate Approach to Managing Sensitive Content and Decolonial Archives, which should be published Fall 2026.

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Hands-On Preservation: How to Protect Your Historic Photos

Learn how to properly protect and preserve your historic photographs and film for generations to come with the professionals of the Ohio Preservation Council.